So, ..wandering thru the grocery store and I see watermelons on special and I sez to myself I haven't had one all year. Seedless it says, I get the smaller size 'cause it's just me. Tonight I cut up half of it and it has an amazing number of seeds, all kinds of small ones. White ones, 1/2 and half ones, and black seeds, all small.

Sorry that's not seedless . Not even close. It is worse than regular because the big ones I can pick out, or spit out with ease. This isn't the first time it has been misleading but it'll be the last. It will be ordinary watermelon like from my younger days from now on!

When someone came up with seedless watermelon, I'd swear they genetically engineered the taste out of them. Watermelon just doesn't taste as good as back when I was a kid. Same for a lot of food.

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Originally posted by 229DAK:
When someone came up with seedless watermelon, I'd swear they genetically engineered the taste out of them. Watermelon just doesn't taste as good as back when I was a kid. Same for a lot of food.

I agree, seedless = tasteless.
Thankfully where I live we have a lot of backyard growers selling on the side of the road, good old fashioned seeded watermelon.

Taste buds die as you age. Typically, by the mid 40's you've lost half of them. That's why older people often like very spicy foods. Maybe the food hasn't changed.

^^^ Fruits and vegetables' flavor has definitely changed. Part of it has to do with modern farming practices and part has to do with many of them being picked unripened and artificially ripened with ethylene gas.

I worked for a small farm in high school, over an acre of watermelons.
Sweetest, juiciest I've ever had.

Ruined me. I can pick a good one, per my wife & kids, but they almost always taste bland to me.

Best thing about seeded watermelons is that sometimes those seeds will sprout. Had that happen once in a garden my mom had prepped for new flowers. She saw the first sprout and had a hunch about it. So us kids and my mom spent time caring for and watching those water melons grow. NOTHING beats the taste of fully ripened on the vine watermelon.

Seedless is genetically modified crap. I wont buy one.

Give me a huge Black Diamond with seeds any day. All the little/seedless melons taste like nothing.